George Burns was the owner of a small company in the semiconductor industry until he retired in 2008. He has been writing short stories and poetry for more than forty years. His short stories and poems have appeared many literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Duality Journal, One Sentence Poems, Passengers Journal, Verse Daily, Right Hand Pointing, The Comstock Review, The DMQ Review and The Massachusetts Review. In 2004, his poem, "Partly Heliotropic", was the winner of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Poetry Contest. "Like One Bird Wing" was a Poem of Special Merit in Comstock Review's 2021 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Contest. His first book of poems, If a Fish, was recently published by Cathexis Northwest Press.

Other poems by George Burns in Verse Daily:
February 10, 2023:   "Forgiveness" "Now, many years later..."
January 26, 2023:   "Plants in Tough Places" "I always want to cheer..."

Books by George Burns:

Other poems on the web by George Burns:
"How is It"

George Burns's Website.

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Other poems by duality in Verse Daily:
December 28, 2023:   "I will leave behind" by Jianqing Zheng
December 27, 2023:   "I will leave behind" by Lorna Wood

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